WordPress Daily Prompt
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My blog had fizzed out before taking flight. Then, two months ago, I started using the Daily Prompt. It jump started my writing, put it where it could be seen, and put me in contact with other people willing to offer criticism, encouragement and friendship. Why are you taking this away? Are you replacing it with anything? Please reconsider. This is heartbreaking.
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I wish to add my voice to the dismayed outpouring on this forum concerning the ending of the word and photo challenges posed until now by WordPress. I know that much of the traction for my own blog has come via the photo challenge. The simple process of taking part, creating a ping back and looking at, liking and commenting on others work is what has built my own blog to where it is now. Without this I will have to rely on finding new blogs to read by following tags and I have always found this to be less productive. There is also the fact that having a prompt can be the very real trigger to something worthwhile. It certainly is often the case with me and I’m not self-obsessed enough to imagine I am the only one. I wish WordPress to reconsider because by doing this they are creating a dark space into which many bloggers will simply disappear and that seems awfully unkind.
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Been here and done this before. Considering how little effort it takes to generate a single word prompt — my computer can do it automatically — I find it hard to understand you finding it too much trouble to manage.
None of us are looking to the prompt because we don’t have anything to write about. Most of us can write 24/7 and never run out of things to say. The point of the prompt, something apparently WordPress never quite “got”, is that it’s about connection and friends. Relationships. The thing — the ONLY THING — that has made WordPress unique was it’s willingness to offer ways for us to connect with each other. Maybe you’ll find a way to turn bloggers into business people, but I rather doubt it.
Other companies, including Yahoo, have tried and failed. Bloggers succeeds only because Google is big enough to let it ride and leave it alone. You aren’t going to get us to have business sites since we aren’t businesses. You’ve got the wrong audience and if marketing teaches us one single important thing, it’s KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
What you are doing will hurt many of us in a personal way AND make it significantly harder for new bloggers to find a place on WordPress. I don’t see anything good coming out of this for us or you. It is foolish and rather mean-spirited.
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I want to add my name to the list of those who want you to reinstate the Daily prompt feature. I have followed it for a time myself and I know there are quite a few other bloggers who are very dedicated to doing the Daily prompt each day. And it seems a pretty low maintenance feature.
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I agree with ALL of the above .. this is killing the SOUL of WP … I have watched this happen before on another forum. Bloggers will drift away when the community connection is cut. There are other challenges and we post but the sharing and connection on DP and WPC are priceless … please don’t desert us, don’t go!
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Bravo to all who made such eloquent arguments. Jane’s poem, Kristian’s post, gcharb, huelsen, embeecee, thebritchyone, fauxcroft,sgeoli, whatisonsecond, chieflittlebritches, theceaselessreaderwrites, eschudel, angloswiss, cee, gizzylaw, reflectionsofanuntidymind, martha, supernovia, curioussteph–I appreciate the effort you all made. Let’s hope we will have some effect. If you are reading this and haven’t added your voice to our request, I invite you to do so. Judy
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The daily prompts have helped us to develop a wonderful lists of followers. I would ask WordPress to reconsider. I would think that there are so many words that could jump-start writer’s block, and I have so enjoyed the challenge of writing blogs that do not use the words as most people think. It is my hope that this effort will be successful.
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I’ve spent the day reading dozens upon dozens of posts from people who are broken-hearted over the disappearing daily prompts and other features. I am another who is disappointed I switched my blog from a self-hosted site last year because I was in over my head and needed more of a community to learn from. The daily post was one big step in that direction. I did not post much myself, but read and commented on many other posts, thus growing my own readership as a result. What I’ve like most is that for the huge range of diverse opinions and beliefs, I saw nothing but respect in the comments and support shown to one another … so unlike the toxic responses and trolling that goes on in social media sites. You are taking away something very special that empowered me as a WordPress Blogger. I have been planning to take the next steps for a paid subscription in the next few months, but like others here, am rethinking that now. I really wish you would reconsider.
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I’ve noticed a number of people commenting that this is cutting the soul out of WordPress. I think that IS the point. You take away the prompts and challenges that have tied us together and what have you got? Nothing that isn’t offered by any other site. The reason that WordPress has been special is exactly what you are removing.
The interaction is unique in the blogging world. The ability to connect, chat, reblog, cross-feed ideas was special.
When you cut the soul out of a site, the people on it will drift away. They will. It’s our ties with Each other that bind us.
Marilyn at Serendipity – Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth
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Please don’t take away the Daily Prompt. It is probably the only reason which protects me from writer’s block on daily basis.
Whether I write something new or add an old post to the Daily Prompt, I feel connecting up with everyone on WordPress through this challenge.
Please let it stay!!
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Hi. I find the Daily Post invaluable as a challenge and also to see what other members have to share/say about the same word. If it has to go (and I find it strange that WordPress has come to the decision to discontinue this), then perhaps the best route is to publish recycling the daily prompts from 2 years ago. See my open letter to Ben: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/open-letter-to-ben-huberman-wordpress-demise-of-daily-prompts/
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Judy, Tracy, Jane and all the others have so well articulated why daily prompts should not go. Could Daily Post honestly tell us the reason they are doing away with it instead of beating around the bush with meaningless encouraging words?
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I write to ask WordPress to reconsider. As a means of linking with other bloggers, as a trigger on days when the words don’t flow the challenges are invaluable. The reason that I use WordPress is quite simple. It is an excellent platform to write, to read and to interact and the prompts are an easy mechanism to do all of these things leading to relationships within the blogging community that are amongst the most important in my life. I know I am not unique. The rather woolly reasons given for stopping make no sense to me. So please listen, WordPress, listen to those that keep the wheels turning on your platform and give us back our prompts and challenges. Thank you.
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I still hold the dream that tomorrow I will turn on my computer to see it was all a cruel joke, and a word prompt will still be staring at me, daring to be included in the post I was planning, or to have a whole new post created for it to star in.
Such a unique format. So simple to join, and so many of us seem to enjoy each other’s posts.
As when someone passes without warning, I’m still in shock and disbelief.
I wrote a retrospective post today, but hope WordPress or whoever made the decision will still reconsider.
Fingers Crossed,
Penny, thepennymasonpost.wordpress.com -
@alangracewebsite I’ve made sure the team is aware of this thread, and will point out your post as well.
I doubt we could get away with emailing everyone. But one thing you all really could do pretty easily is re-use the prompts by date, but as tags instead of a pingback to the original post, so nothing will get stuck in moderation.
You would all also be more than welcome to use a tag like #community-pool each week, or follow others using the tag here: https://wordpress.com/tag/community-pool
Or, you could write about your favorite topics, tag those appropriately, then go connect with other readers who also wanted to write about that thing. You can even follow topics of interest in the reader. While you might not get the huge number of posts to read each time like you would with a post prompt, you very well might get a manageable number. And when the topic is a true shared interest, you might be able to build a deeper connection as well.
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Please see Ben’s comment on my Open letter:
Open letter to Ben Huberman (WordPress): Demise of Daily Prompts Aimless?
Sadly there will be no reversal of the decision to stop new Daily Prompts.
See my Open letter here: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/open-letter-to-ben-huberman-wordpress-demise-of-daily-prompts/ -
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Subjective reality
Here’s to view that’s retrospective
Without subjective directive
No more obfuscation
Or alienation
Lacking customer perspectiveAlan Grace
1 June 2018See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/alienation/
I see comments are closed for https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/to-the-daily-post-community-thank-you/ :(
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Thanks @alangracewebsite, two requests:
– We have recommended using tags, like postaday or community-pool rather than linking to the prompt for a pingback as you’ve recommended in the post. In this case you could use the tag angry if you wanted to.
– Since this is a support thread, let’s not use it to announce new posts.
Thanks!
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Since this is a support thread, let’s not use it to announce new posts.
Thanks for the clarity on use of technical support forum threads. I appreciate it.
Perhaps those who have built relationships with fellow bloggers through responding to the daily prompts and have not done so yet will consider following each other by subscribing to each other’s sites.
There are many daily prompts that can be found by using Google search.
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